The Telegraph (UK).

Zack Polanski has been referred to the Metropolitan Police by Nigel Farage for sharing a post that appeared to threaten the Reform leader.

The Green Party leader posted an image of a man wearing a T-shirt with a guillotine graphic alongside the caption: “We’re only making plans for Nigel.”

Mr Polanski shared the photograph with his 700,000 Instagram followers as part of a series of images from a Green Party rally in Bristol on July 26.

The Telegraph (UK).

Labour MPs have threatened to rebel if Andy Burnham makes “punitive” cuts to welfare.

The Prime Minister is planning to strip young people of their benefits unless they agree to do training or voluntary work under proposals to reduce the £333bn welfare bill.

However, backbenchers on the party’s Left have warned Mr Burnham against repeating the “failed politics of welfare cuts” and signalled that they would oppose such a move.

And that’s why the UK is doomed to die.

How Trump could undermine the midterms (George Chidi/The Guardian)  Where ‘undermine’ refers to Democrat efforts to steal the mid-terms.

Trump’s foreign policy enters its decadent, desperate end stage (Andrew O’Hehir/Salon)

Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of ‘communist menace’ (Robert Tait/The Guardian)  Old but still true.

I’ve visited the Smithsonian hundreds of times. Warnings aren’t needed. (Philip Kennicott/Washington Post)  Because, as we all know, what proglodytes believe is absolutely the truth.

Why Trump Has ‘No F*cking Way Out’ of His Failed Iran War (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)

INEVITABLE: Brian Stelter Whines Over Trump’s Nerd Prom Speech

Trump Triggers Massive Leftist Hypocrisy On ‘Transgenderism’

The media’s anti-Trump bias was on full display at redo of White House Correspondents’ Dinner (Michael Goodwin/New York Post)

Why even some Trump supporters are souring on his handling of the economy (Washington Post)

Elizabeth Warren Claims Crypto Clarity Act Would Help Trump… And ‘Criminals & Cartels’

Trump’s Iran Fallacy

Worse on Purpose.

A listing of brands and whether to use or avoid them—and why.

I knew about the enshitification of Pyrex, but CorningWare surprised (and disappointed) me.

Approval of Le Creuset was a welcome surprise. And I’m happy about my Cutco knives, which I bought a decade ago and have never had to sharpen. Recently upgraded to a Made In griddle, and happy to see them among the elect.

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The Democratic Socialists of America are not hiding their plan to reshape America. On Sunday, their co-chair joined Fox News and openly confirmed that their long-term goals ahead of the midterm elections include abolishing parts of the U.S. government.

Megan Romer appeared on Shannon Bream’s “Fox News Sunday,” saying the organization’s goals include abolishing the presidency, U.S. Senate, and Supreme Court, as well as prisons, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the nation’s borders. The Democratic Socialists of America also envision defunding the Pentagon and granting amnesty for illegal aliens.

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The American Spectator is having a bit of fun with another mournful essay by Sally Quinn about the assault on Washington establishment sensibilities by the MAGA hordes in power in DC. She writes:

The worst part about living in Donald Trump’s Washington has been seeing just how much fun he and all the MAGA vandals he brought to power have been having sacking and pillaging the place. This while the rest of us longtime Washingtonians who abided by norms, shared values and even bipartisanship were filled first with shock, then a feeling of helplessness, and hopelessness. It could border on passivity. What could be done?

It is actually a tonal improvement on her abject terror expressed the year before.,

Sally Quinn is a dinosaur. The rise of badly educated brats into positions of power, and especially the poisonous power of social media unmediated by adult editors have created a nasty edge to the Democratic party and solidified the GOP as the resistance to federal expansion (at least in appearance). After Gingrich ousted the genuinely nice guy Bob Michel and after the reign the ugly hardball of George Mitchell and the far worse Harry Reed as both parties shed moderates has meant a very different style.

The delusion that longtime Washingtonians have been trying to sustain a (fictitious) unconditional polite bipartisanship is a hoot.

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The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, as early as January 2020 did not believe that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese wet market. He later publicly insisted that a wet market was the likely origin of the virus while dismissing a theory that the virus had a man-made origin.

That was among the many revelations uncovered by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who on Saturday released portions of Fauci’s diary from the pandemic. The diary posts occurred between December 2019 and December 2022.

My, what a surprise.

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Rotterdam has introduced an unprecedented nighttime ban preventing people from entering large parts of the De Esch district unless they live, work, or have another valid reason to be there.

The measure was introduced after residents endured nearly three years of street racing, drug use, intimidation, prostitution, and persistent noise from migrant youth gangs that made normal life impossible.

The measure bars anyone from entering the affected area between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. unless they have a specific reason to be there. Residents, their visitors, people working in the district, and those attending local businesses or events are exempt.

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Homes belonging to supporters of a planned asylum centre have been vandalised in the Dutch villages of Engelen and Bokhoven, marking the latest escalation in a dispute that has already involved demonstrations, a motorway blockade and an explosion.

Police said homes, fences and other properties had been spray-painted with slogans including “AMV nee” and “POA,” as well as crude insults. AMV is the Dutch abbreviation for unaccompanied minor foreign nationals, while POA refers to a reception facility used during the asylum process.

Several complaints have been filed, and officers are working to determine how many properties were damaged. Police are conducting house-to-house inquiries, seeking CCTV footage and increasing patrols in Engelen and Bokhoven.

The vandalism is believed to be connected to plans announced by the municipality of Den Bosch in early April to accommodate 50 unaccompanied asylum seekers aged between 15 and 18.

Quillette.

The assassinations of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and insurance executive Brian Thompson, the murder of a Jewish couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum, the latest (as of this writing) attempt on the life of Donald Trump—these are some recent examples of serious violence in the name of left-wing causes. Others include the spate of bombing and shooting attacks against ICE facilities, and, going further back, the deadly and destructive riots of 2020.

Noah Rothman’s Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America aims to “confront its readers” with “the quickening tempo of left-led attacks and their political motives,” as well as with the ways in which such violence is often forgotten or justified.

Rothman opens the book with recent examples like the Kirk assassination, then goes back in time to consider waves of leftist violence since the early 20th century. It thus proceeds from the anarchists of the 1910s to the Marxian terrorists of the 1970s, on up through violent offshoots of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and pro-Palestinian movements.

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And guess who will pay for it!

I wonder whether there will be long lines for bread, as is traditoinal for socialist government-owned grocery stores.

LifeHacker.

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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These gangs of Muslims and other foreigners are camping with their Ubers and Lyfts outside the airport and monopolizing all of the business for themselves.

They’ve apparently found a way to turn Uber into an ethnic cartel.

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Yes, Britain has found its newest champion of “women’s empowerment”: A devout Muslim woman who showed up to collect her award at the Palace of Westminster fully covered in a niqab.

Khadija Patel, founder of the KRIMMZ Girls Youth Club, was one of 28 recipients of the prestigious British Citizen Award for her tireless work getting hundreds of young girls — many from Muslim backgrounds — into sports like cricket, soccer, cycling, netball, and more. She builds confidence, promotes teamwork, breaks down “cultural barriers,” and all that good stuff.

Truly commendable community service!

She can stab people and rob stores and never be found. Pretty empowering.

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Allah likes it when you stab people.

ATQUE: “Allah Sent Me To Kill Women”—Triple Stabbing in Paris

ATQIE: ‘It Is Allah Who Commanded Me’: Knife-Wielding Man Attacks Three Women in Paris

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21-year-old Abdul Ballout was named as the suspect who drove a white van through a crowd at an LGBT festival in Berlin, then stabbed more people as he fled the scene.

Ballout is the son of Shia-Muslim migrants from Lebanon. He was born in Berlin.

In 2024, Ballout left Germany to go fight with ISIS. He ended up back in Lebanon.

Instead of classifying him as a terrorist, denaturalizing him (canceling his German passport), and reporting him to the Lebanese authorities, German officials brought Ballout back to Germany for trial.

And the slow suicide of Europe proceeds apace.

ATQUE: Liberal women express sympathy for Muslim who plowed car into LGBT festival, blame white Christian men instead

Babylon Bee.

Across the globe this past weekend, dozens of people had the great fortune to hear someone shouting “God is the greatest!” in Arabic, a sure sign that something really good was happening.

People in Berlin, New York City, and Paris were treated in recent days to the happy Arabic proclamation of God’s greatness, leaving passersby looking around for what wonderful thing was transpiring.

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has voted to dismiss its chief prosecutor for alleged sexual misconduct.

British lawyer Karim Khan, elected in 2021, was facing serious allegations of sexual misconduct. Members—the 125-state Special Session of the Assembly of States Parties—cast 82 votes in favour of removing him, based on findings in June that he had committed a “serious breach of duty and serious misconduct,” prompting his suspension.

Not the Bee.

Democrats: Party of the Noseless.

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Is “suicidal empathy” the real cause of the western world’s immigration crisis? Or, is the political left completely devoid of empathy? Is the multicultural agenda so important to them that they’re willing to sacrifice their own people to protect it?

The problem of “intersectionality” and engineered mass immigration is that progressive ideals are not shared or respected by most cultures. Leftists envision a sweeping coalition of socialist and minority groups joining forces to destroy the “evil colonial west”, but they seem to be ignoring the fact that foreign elements entering Europe and the US hate liberals as much as they hate conservatives.

This might not be stupidity – it might be a calculated risk on the part of woke leaders who are happy to throw a few of their “comrades” to the third world wolves in the service of the “greater good.” A common tactic of Antifa and related organizations in the face of a terror attack or criminal event that makes them look bad is to counter by diverting the public discourse. The pattern is undeniable and undoubtedly well planned.

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A newly revealed internal memo from the final days of the Biden administration exposes a calculated scheme to grant de facto amnesty to more than 3 million foreign nationals through Temporary Protected Status expansions, explicitly designed to block President Trump from carrying out the mass deportations the American people voted for.

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A Baltimore-area contractor operating under the names “Squatter King Removal” and/or “Eviction King” has emerged as one of the premier, go-to property recovery services. This reflects a growing enforcement gap in Maryland, a one-party-ruled state controlled by the Democratic Party.

 

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And there you have it: From the horse’s ass’s mouth.

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The WNBA only has two real stars with any meaningful popular following – Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham. Both of them built reputations as underdogs in a sport traditionally dominated by minority players espousing far-left politics. Both of them have been mistreated in the past by a league that tends to play nursemaid to those same players.

The WNBA has long been a cultural joke, not just because its reputation for low standards of athleticism, but because they are constantly whining about “equal pay”, “social justice” and LGBT issues. The league spends so much energy on activism that they’ve forgotten about the game and the fans. No one likes a bunch of crybabies making demands.

The national interest in Caitlin Clark transcends politics; people like her because she takes the game seriously and plays at a level far above most of her peers. Her mere presence on the court now often brings in double or even triple the normal WNBA viewership.

On the other hand, Sophie Cunningham has gained a reputation as an enforcer. While Caitlin Clark is being persistently battered with flagrant fouls disguised as “accidents”, Cunningham has decided to dish out some fouls in return. The Martial Arts trained player has decided to “sweep the leg” on the league and she’s no longer letting the abuse slide.

ATQUE: USA TODAY Sports Activists Faceplant with Fake News on Caitlin Clark

Newsbusters.

Sunday’s edition of MS NOW’s The Weekend staged a kvetchathon over President Trump ordering the installation of signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History warning visitors that the museum does not accurately reflect American history.

The panel repeatedly asked: Who gets to tell America’s history?

They never answered that question, other than to make clear they don’t want Trump doing it.

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On the heels of liberal artist Bruce Springsteen’s TDS-laden political rants during his “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour earlier this year, two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legends have spoken out against pushing political propaganda during shows. Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger said fans should be entertained, not lectured, while Journey’s iconic pianist/keyboardist and songwriter Jonathan Cain was more blunt, insisting “The Boss” needs to “shut up” and sing.

In a New York Times podcast interview, Jagger was asked what his audience means to him. The question was disingenuous as the interviewer qualified it with an inaccurate description, claiming Springsteen “engages in in a meaningful back-and-forth with his audience.”

We all know there’s no “back-and-forth” with the Born to Run singer when he’s ranting about politics. It’s strictly a one-sided, self-righteous lecture. Still, Jagger answered politely:

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Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, a Democrat, was indicted by an Oahu grand jury on Friday on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, and falsifying candidate committee reports. The charges stem from an alleged 2022 scheme, dating to her time as a powerful state lawmaker, to steer state money toward COVID-19 testing contracts during the pandemic. Hawaii News Now reported that legal experts are calling it the biggest bribery scandal in state history.

Luke was one of five people named in the 12-count indictment. The others: Ryan Yamane, a former state representative and ex-director of the Department of Human Services; Tobi Solidum, a businessman and lobbyist; Ford Fuchigami, a Transportation Department official; and Leo Asuncion, a former chair of the state Public Utilities Commission. Luke turned herself in Friday afternoon; her bail was set at $80,000.

Gov. Josh Green did not wait for the case to develop. “The Lieutenant Governor needs to consider formally resigning to address this matter and so that the state of Hawai?i can move forward,” Green said in a statement Friday.

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Genociding commuinism is a genocide I can get behind with a clear conscience.

(What’s next in the proglodyte term-twisting contest? Culinary genocide? Arboreal genocide? Hello Kitty genocide?)

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Many people begin to notice the arrival of spring with the large, beautiful blooms of the magnolia flower. Magnolia trees can be found in many parts of the world, and their beautiful forms have symbolic, medicinal, and visual meaning across cultures—and have for centuries. If you’re ever near a magnolia tree, though, look closely: you’ll notice that beetles, instead of bees, will be moving amongst the flowers.

So, why beetles over bees? The answer is simpler than you might think. Magnolias are so ancient that they were around long before bees came into existence. They’ve been around for over 100 million years, in fact, and beetles have existed for even longer , approximately 300 million years.

Named after the French botanist Pierre Magnol, magnolias belong to one of the oldest lineages of flowers on Earth. (Dinosaurs still walked the Earth at this time, to put it into perspective!) Given this ancient setting, the pollinators we’re most familiar with, butterflies and bees, had not yet evolved. Beetles were the primary insect pollinators for the time, and so they became the de facto agents for the magnolia’s survival.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Objectivism is Red Pill? Who knew?

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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I guess nobody reads the Fifth Amendment any more, much less the Fourth.

A federal case in Atlanta is raising questions about a privacy-focused mobile operating system, with prosecutors arguing that its features were used to erase evidence. The US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute Atlanta resident Sam Tunick under a federal statute that makes it a crime to destroy property in an effort to prevent it from being seized.

The case centers on Tunick’s use of GrapheneOS, an open-source operating system that works on Google Pixel phones and lets users enter a passcode to wipe a device clean.

Experts said the legal approach is unusual and may be the first time the law has been aimed at an operating system. “It’s concerning – and sends the message that [GrapheneOS] is criminal by default,” said Christophe Boutry, a cybersecurity and surveillance expert. Boutry and Bill Buddington, senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, both said they had not seen a similar case.

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Tunick was taken to a secondary screening room, where multiple agents questioned him. A motion filed by his defense argues the interrogation focused on child sexual abuse material as a pretext for investigating his connections to the protest movement. The motion also states that Tunick asked four times to speak with a lawyer and was denied each time. According to the same filing, agents did not present a warrant or read him his rights.

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Of course she did.

The remark was made during a vigil held in Berlin for the victims of the attack on the Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade on Saturday. The woman who spoke revealed something more telling than a mere emotional reaction: a desire for the terrorist to fit a politically convenient frame.

She was not hoping that the attacker did not exist. She was hoping he was someone else.

As they do. If we all hope really really hard, Tinkerbelle will live.

The attack took place on July 25th in Berlin’s Tiergarten park. A man drove into the crowd, and then attacked people with a bladed weapon. One woman was killed and another 29 people were injured.

The suspect was later identified as Abdul B., a 21-year-old German of Lebanese origin known for his Islamist connections. German authorities classified the incident as Islamist terrorism. The attacker was shot dead by police the following day.

The facts forced part of the Left to confront its own reflection. A white Christian attacker would have allowed the assault to be presented as a direct consequence of supremacism, the far Right, or Western intolerance. A radicalised Islamist, by contrast, forces an acknowledgement that there are religious and political currents incompatible with the rights the LGBT movement claims to defend.

The CSD organisers, predictably, called for the attack not to be politically “instrumentalised” and insisted that no community should be placed under general suspicion. The principle is reasonable: no citizen should be held responsible for another person’s actions because of their origin or religion. The problem arises when caution is used to prevent any discussion of the terrorist’s specific ideology.

The attack must not be politicised, they say—except to decide in advance which interpretation is forbidden.

Apparently that’s a thing.

God preserve me from being that cool.

The Foundry.

One reason pharmaceuticals cost so much: The Food and Drug Administration’s approval process takes up to 12 years to bring a new drug to market. The Trump administration has launched Operation Trialblazer to shorten that timeline.

It’s one of Trump’s best healthcare proposals so far, one that reduces the government’s footprint in U.S. healthcare. It is a welcome departure from some of the Trump administration’s other prescription drug initiatives that, unfortunately, expand the role of government.

The FDA approval process is divided into three phases. Phase 1 determines if a drug can be used safely in humans and, if so, at what dosage. Completing Phase 1 takes an average of 380 days and, in some cases, can stretch?to 700 days.

Other countries are taking advantage of the FDA’s slower pace. China has reduced its Phase 1 process to 60 days while Australia’s is about 70 days. The U.S. has lost its competitive edge as a result. In 2024, the number of drug trials registered in China was over 16,600 versus 9,100 in the U.S., according to the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology—the first time China has exceeded the U.S.

Once again, government bureaucracy is the reason why we can’t have nice things.

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Former President Barack Obama recently gave America another reminder of how his presidency—once expected to bring the country together—left us more divided on race.

Obama compared America under President Donald Trump to the tumultuous period after the Civil War that gave birth to the Ku Klux Klan. He said the U.S. is “having the same arguments” we did in the 1860s and 1870s, when Union troops occupied the former Confederacy and attempted to secure real freedom for former slaves.

“These issues are still here,” Obama told author Malcolm Gladwell in an interview for the podcast “Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise.”

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In most states the jury duty summons process comes from registered voter rolls. As a consequence, when a person is called for jury duty and is then disqualified as a non-citizen, we have another way to judge the scale of non-citizens on the voter rolls.

Reviewing lists of disqualified non-citizen jurors is now taking place in many counties led by citizen inquiry. The disqualification records, “non-juror” lists are public records in many states and counties. These reviews are turning up tens-of-thousands of non-citizens who are on juror lists, which means they are also on voter rolls.

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Centuries before semioticians decided it was exceedingly clever of them, Shakespeare’s fourteen year old protégé, Juliet, argued rather more elegantly than any academic, that the connection between a word and the physical object it represents, is arbitrary. If we all decide tomorrow that the often exquisitely scented, gracefully shaped flower that comes in an endless variety of colours is called a nose, and not a rose, it really doesn’t matter. In spite of endlessly trite and tedious efforts by academics to tell Ferdinand de Saussure what he actually meant when he claimed, The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary, onomatopoeia remains the only example of a word which real people think has some kind of integral connection to the physical world they inhabit. Bees really do buzz and wind chimes really do tinkle.

The insidious spread of sociolinguistics across educational institutions, and the cultural chaos it has fuelled, is a topic I’ve frequently written about, and so I thought I’d take a leaf out of these linguistic anarchists’ textbook and ask myself a particularly current question. What words might we now use, to accurately identify our major political parties?

Because it’s quite obvious today that Blair and Campbellson’s attempt to rename the Labour Party Nu Labour has been an abject failure. All it took was Corbyn’s spectacularly brief rise and fall to demonstrate their rebranding had not even been skin deep, even as the sight of all that ugly anti-Semitism on display made decent folks’ skin crawl.

But you would have to be a linguistic eunuch not to think that calling the party Burnham has just usurped, the Labour Party, is a lexical felony worthy of a life sentence. To plunder Blair’s painfully slim legacy volume, I’d suggest we all start referring to Burnham’s bourgeois, Glastonbury tent as the Not the People’s Party, because the idea that they represent working people and not their own peculiarly idiosyncratic hang ups and interests, is risible.

Fortune, a Voice of the Crust.

For decades, the story of American higher education has been about women pulling ahead. Now a new study shows that shift is also reshaping who marries whom—and it’s women without college degrees who are paying the price.

Fortune has been chronicling how money shapes marriage since long before this study — the magazine’s Julie Connelly coined the term “trophy wife” itself in a 1989 cover story, a phrase that’s since become an inescapable shorthand across pop culture for wealth-driven pairings. Now, new research suggests the more consequential story about marriage and money is happening in the opposite direction: not among the wealthy elite, but in the widening gap between non-college women and the shrinking pool of “marriageable” men.

A National Bureau of Economic Research working paper tracked marriage patterns across U.S. birth cohorts from 1930 to 1980 and found that college-educated women have kept their marriage rates stable even as their pool of similarly educated men shrank dramatically. The ratio of college men to college women fell from 1.8 to 0.8 over that span, and there are now 1.6 million more women than men enrolled in four-year colleges nationwide, according to the study by economists Clara Chambers of Yale, Benjamin Goldman of Cornell, and Joseph Winkelmann of Harvard.

“Four-year college rates for men stagnated essentially many decades ago, whereas for women, it’s been a steady increase,” Goldman told Fortune. “That’s really been the key factor that’s led to the changing ratio over time.”

The paper, “Bachelors Without Bachelor’s: Gender Gaps in Education and Declining Marriage Rates,” complicates the mutation of the “trophy wife” era into the “power couples” era: as wealthy Americans increasingly marry within their own income and education tier. This new research shows the opposite pattern playing out further down the income ladder, where college-educated women are increasingly pairing with men who skipped college altogether.

The Telegraph (UK).

A charity that is an alleged outpost of the Iranian regime in London has the right to bring migrants to Britain, The Telegraph can reveal.

The Home Office has given the Islamic Centre of England, based in Maida Vale, powers to sponsor visas for “skilled workers” and religious ministers.

The centre remains on the official register of visa sponsors despite accusations that it forms part of Iran’s propaganda machine in the UK. It has successfully issued a number of certificates of sponsorship, the document necessary for migrant workers to apply to enter the UK.

The Telegraph (UK).

A police force is placing biological men in women’s cells despite the Supreme Court ruling that transgender women are not legally women.

Staffordshire Police says its custody policy means “detainees may be placed in accommodation consistent with their gender identity”, The Telegraph can reveal.

That means biological men who identify as transgender women can be placed in women’s-only custody cells.

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Staffordshire Police has also been accused of providing “contradictory” guidance on whether an officer of the opposite sex can carry out strip searches.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Villiers Revealed project includes an exploration of Care Bears as “a symbol for the LGBTQA+ community”, and says some of these bears are “transgender or gender fluid”.

The project was developed by Culture Leicestershire, backed by public funding from Arts Council England, to highlight “trans narratives erased by colonialism”.

Care Bears, spanning children’s toys and cartoon characters, were launched by the American Greetings card company in 1981, becoming highly popular throughout the decade.

The exhibition said one bear, called Funshine, had been variously depicted as male and female since the launch of the toys and could be considered “a symbol for the LGBTQA+ community” and a role model.

The Telegraph (UK).

Dozens of armed police officers and emergency services rushed to the Seattle Center complex at around 6pm local time on Sunday after rapid gunfire broke out during the event, named the Bite of Seattle.

The annual three-day festival is one of the city’s busiest events, having drawn more than 280,000 visitors last year.

Authorities have not yet confirmed the exact number of casualties.

However, Harborview Medical Centre was forced into a sudden lockdown to manage the influx of victims and a heightened police presence, according to an internal staff email seen by The Seattle Times.

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What if Illinois were two states? Rep. Brad Halbrook lays it out.

Jim Acosta Falsely Accuses Trump of Jailing Journalists

More than 1 million children lost access to food benefits after Trump bill passed (Marina Dunbar/The Guardian) Because, as we all know, feeding children is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Fedral government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Brazil Denies Visas to U.S. Officials Over Election-Interference Fears (Samantha Pearson/Wall Street Journal)  Democrats in America aren’t the only ones stealing elections, and fearing getting found out.

Trump Seems Trapped by Iran War, Even as He Wields the World’s Biggest Hammer (David E. Sanger/New York Times)

UK’s Burnham Would Call Out Trump If in Britain’s Interest, He Tells BBC  Good luck with that.

Trump Is Pushing Nuclear Energy. His Family and Supporters Could Benefit. (New York Times)  Becaise. as we all know, nobody but Trump’s family have ever benefited from public office.

UK journalists ‘self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’ (Michael Savage/The Guardian)  Because, as we all know, ‘journalists’ never have to censor stories about the left over safety fears.

Nobody’s cashing in on the presidency quite like Donald Trump Jr. (Paul Waldman/MS NOW)  Because, as we all know, every Trump is a crook—unlike Democrats. (Catherine Herridge Uncovers Shocking Revelations About The Biden Family)

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The Hodge Twins demonstrate what’s wrong with black culture.

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July marks the critical window for cotton topping in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In cotton fields across Xinjiang, farmers are racing against the farming schedule to carry out topping operations with fleets of robotic cotton toppers, replacing traditional manual labor with digitalized, precision farming work.

If we can ever figure out how to have robots pick crops, one of the chief incentives for winking at illegal immigration will go away.

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Iran knows that if they are losing they can call for a ‘truce’ (hudna) and they will get one, giving them time to re-build and re-arm before attacking again, which history shows they will always do.

I keep waiting for American politicians to catch on to this scam but they never do. Failure to learn from history is the main reason why we can’t have nice things.

The Foundry.

There are only two lanes to the Democrat presidential nomination two years from now, and one of them is already blocked—by Kamala Harris.

Get ready for the Kamala comeback, followed, in all likelihood, by a replay of her crushing defeat by the Republican nominee.

Believe it or not, the ex-VP occupies what counts as the “center lane” within the party, and for most of the last three decades, that’s the one that’s led to the nomination.